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Chevron is installing solar panels — to produce oil more cheaply | Renewables | JWN Energy

Since April, solar panels have been powering oil pumps at Chevron’s Lost Hills 7,981 barrel-a-day oil field, according to the company. The 29-megawatt site, owned and operated by San Jose-based SunPower Corp., is designed to provide the field with 80 per cent of its electricity, equal to taking more than 4,000 cars off the road. In exchange, Chevron will earn so-called low-carbon fuel standard credits worth about $4 million a year at current prices.

“Electricity is one of Lost Hills field’s largest operating expenses, so having solar will be an important factor to help keep those costs down and maintain the planned oil field life,” Veronica Flores-Paniagua, a Chevron spokeswoman, said in an email.

July 30, 2020

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How Alberta capitulated to Big Oil and left Albertans poorer

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By Andre Forget – Andrew Scheer – https://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewscheer/33927663458/, CC0, Link

The real measure of success is what one makes of the hand one is dealt. And, by that measure, Alberta has been a train wreck.

Its political leaders, by allowing corporate interests to design the economy to their own benefit, have squandered the province’s vast natural wealth, leaving Alberta’s citizens with a mere fraction of what they could be enjoying today, even with the downturn in world oil prices.

Over the past two decades, more than half a trillion dollars — $528 billion — has been siphoned off by foreign shareholders who have ended up owning every major development in the oilsands, with only two small enterprises under Canadian ownership, according to a new study by University of Alberta political economist Gordon Laxer and Calgary researcher Regan Boychuk.

Klein’s sweetheart deal for the oilsands, which remains in force today under Kenney, has amounted to a complete capitulation to Big Oil.

Source: How Alberta capitulated to Big Oil and left Albertans poorer | rabble.ca

This entry was posted in General and tagged ABpolitics, alberta, Kenney, politics on July 30, 2020 by Steve.

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Canada, U.S. Pursue ‘Joint Interest’ in Getting Pipelines Built – The Energy Mix

“The Canadian federal government is advocating for the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline to continue,” Bloomberg writes, citing the Globe. “It’s also pushing for movement on the Line 3 replacement pipeline project between the two countries, which is awaiting final approval for the construction to start on the U.S. side.”

But it may take more than a friendly chat between two cabinet ministers, one of whom may well be out of office in another 174 days, to deliver on that agenda. Brouillette’s boss, Donald Trump, has spent much of the last four years trying to get new fossil infrastructure built. That effort culminated three weeks ago with a whirlwind of court or business decisions against the Keystone XL, Dakota Access, and Atlantic Coast pipelines, prompting U.S. campaigners to declare “a turning point in their war against the Trump administration’s effort to cement a fossil-fueled future for the United States,” InsideClimate News wrote at the time.

July 29, 2020

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Canada Pension Board Invests $141M in Chinese Coal – The Energy Mix

“It’s completely offside with Canada’s commitments to the Powering Past Coal Alliance and its domestic goal
to retire coal-fired generation,” said Adam Scott, director of
Toronto-based Shift Action. “It’s completely offside with all of
Canada’s climate commitments. And it’s a red flag for Canadians to be
worried about their pension savings.”

July 29, 2020

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Ontario Police Union Flies Controversial Flag Tied To Blue Lives Matter

The thin blue line flag is also tied to the Blue Lives Matter campaign, founded in the U.S. in 2014 as a harmful countermovement to Black Lives Matter. Experts say this position — popular among police unions — advances a detrimental “us versus them” mentality (instead of cooperation with community groups) and undermines the real issue of police violence against Black people.

Blue Lives Matter creates a “reverse discrimination” narrative that casts police as victims who are under attack and shields them from “public accountability for their own violence against racialized communities,” said York University professors Mark Thomas and Steven Tufts in a recent studythat looked at the relationship between police solidarity, unions, race and populism in North America.

July 29, 2020

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